Comments | g_shadowslayer: Tsunami warnings in New Zealand?!

g_shadowslayer

Tsunami warnings in New Zealand?!

May 03, 2006 13:11

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/03/earthquake.tonga/index.html

Hopefully there isn't one to begin with, and that rian219 is okay, if there is!!

wtf?, real life, weather, na folks

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rian219 May 3 2006, 18:40:59 UTC

They've called the warning off. If they hadn't, it would have hit about 10 minutes ago, and all I can say to that is: 1) what a rude awakening, and 2) O.O

leviathanmuse May 3 2006, 18:55:46 UTC

Hopefully you're not close enough to the coast to really have to worry about that kind of thing?

rian219 May 3 2006, 19:02:08 UTC

I'm actually not sure what coast it would have hit first, so I don't know whether I would have been affected. I'll find out more about it today, but if it was coming from the east, it would have got me, because I'm about 1 major road away from the beach on that side. O.O

leviathanmuse May 3 2006, 19:40:32 UTC

Oy! Thinking of head a bit more inland for your permanent place?

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seagull2eagle May 4 2006, 04:06:50 UTC

I'm on the USGS email reports, and when that came over my desk of an 8.0, my eyes about popped out. Most mid-ocean large earthquakes (mid-7s are pretty common) are not in any place where they cause trouble, but that one was dang close to Tonga, and after the tsunami from before... I spent the next half hour periodically poking at the news sites to see if any news was coming out of it. *So* glad everything came out okay!

g_shadowslayer May 4 2006, 06:56:25 UTC

Oh gods yes -- my friend apparently lives about a block from the beach, too, so we're very glad... Eep!